Home of the Victrola: Hidden gem of St-Henri
Felicia Parrillo, Kate Sheridan | for CBC News | Posted: April 29, 2015 4:05 PM | Last Updated: April 29, 2015
Concordia University/CBC series explores stories from Montreal's St-Henri neighbourhood
In the basement of a factory, a dozen men snack on Timbits and drink wine while others operate heavy machinery.
For years, they've gathered here, at the Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner, to tinker with pieces of equipment and give them new life.
Recently, they've helped give the museum new life as well.
Major renovations are happening in this former RCA factory at 1050 Lacasse Street.
This hidden gem in the heart of St-Henri was where Emile Berliner built some of the most famous inventions of the 20th century and where some well-known artists have recorded.
Part of St-Henri's industrial past is being carried into the present and the future by the building and the people who work there.
Profiles
Learn more about people who inspired the museum and those who are working hard to help it grow:
The inventor: Emile Berliner
The staff member: Meggie Savard
The volunteer: Robert McDuff
St-Henri Chronicles
St-Henri Chronicles is a collaboration between the Department of Journalism at Concordia University, and CBC Montreal.
Students in a graduate-level multimedia course were asked to find and produce original stories on St-Henri for their final class project.
They spent the winter term developing these stories, and experimented with sound, pictures, video, infographics and maps to tell them.